NBA: NEW JERSEY (4-6) at UTAH (7-4) <h3>Struggling Nets aim to end five-game skid</h3> <div class="pre">New Jersey (4-6) at Utah (7-4) 9:00 pm EST</div> SALT LAKE CITY (Ticker) - The New Jersey Nets may be finding outjust how much Vince Carter means to their team. The Nets aim to end their five-game skid when they travel to theEnergySolutions Arena to take on the Utah Jazz on Monday. Carter sprained his right ankle in the third quarter of NewJersey's November 10 game against Boston. The Nets went on tolose that contest - the first of five straight defeats for theNets, who went 4-1 when Carter was healthy. His absence is likely causing his teammates to force the actionand, as a result, they set a season high in turnovers for thethird straight game with 27 in a 91-87 setback to the Miami Heaton Saturday. The Nets figure to have their work cut out for them against theJazz, who have won four straight by an average of 18.3 points athome since losing their home opener to Houston on November 1.Utah is coming off its worst loss of the season - a 117-97setback to the Indiana Pacers on Saturday. However, much like New Jersey, the Jazz have struggled to gettheir offense going as of late, scoring less than 100 points inthree straight games after failing to hit that mark just once inthe first eight contests.
Re: NBA: NEW JERSEY (4-6) at UTAH (7-4) Tough matchup for Williams, I hope he can learn more from this game.</p>
Re: NBA: NEW JERSEY (4-6) at UTAH (7-4) Right now you can leave Okur outside, he has been shooting horrible and just hasn't been the same since he became a daddy last year. Utah has been struggling a bit lately and Deron Williams isn't very hot right now since he's been given more minutes.</p>
Re: NBA: NEW JERSEY (4-6) at UTAH (7-4) always liked Okur and couldn't believe the luxury that Detroit used to have with him as a sub. I wished like heck the Nets could have gotten him back when he was available.</p>
Re: NBA: NEW JERSEY (4-6) at UTAH (7-4) Just wanted to let everyone know that there is a game preview thread up</p> http://www.sportstwo.com/Thread/View/NBA/NEWJERSEY/1970246</p>
Re: NBA: NEW JERSEY (4-6) at UTAH (7-4) haha hey don't look at me, I voted to keep them together </p> I'll be posting in the one ma3oxuct created, it has a link to the league pass feed</p>
Re: NBA: NEW JERSEY (4-6) at UTAH (7-4) <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J_Ray)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> </p> Right now you can leave Okur outside, he has been shooting horrible and just hasn't been the same since he became a daddy last year. Utah has been struggling a bit lately and Deron Williams isn't very hot right now since he's been given more minutes.</p> </div></p> </p> Sig is hilarious.</p>
NBA: NEW JERSEY at UTAH <div class="pre">NEW JERSEY AT UTAH - PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS NEW JERSEY UTAH F Richard Jefferson F Andrei Kirilenko F Sean Williams F Carlos Boozer C Jamaal Magloire C Mehmet Okur G Jason Kidd G Deron Williams G Antoine Wright G Ronnie Brewer OFFICIALS: Joe Derosa Courtney Kirkland John Gobel</div>
NBA: NEW JERSEY at UTAH <div class="pre">NBA END 1ST QTR 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL --- --- --- --- ----- NEW JERSEY 17 17 UTAH 30 30 END 1ST QTR HIGH SCORERS AFTER 1ST QUARTER NJN - RICHARD JEFFERSON 5, ANTOINE WRIGHT 4, SEAN WILLIAMS 4 UTH - MEHMET OKUR 9, DERON WILLIAMS 7, RONNIE BREWER 6</div>
